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| a letter to Asia Times on Earthquakes and Iran's Nuke Plants |
| 2006-05-05 |
| In reply to [Iran stands in the way of US designs, May 4] by Stephen Zunes: As I recall, six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council met in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and agreed to a "joint response to Iran's problematic approach to a number of issues". What were some of these? They were environmental and should be a source of general concern because their implications are broad in reach. Iran is building nuclear power facilities in geologically unstable areas (Bushehr Peninsula, Dar-Khuwayn in Khuzestan, and plans one on the Jask Peninsula on the Gulf of Oman). These and the remainder of their 25 hoped-for stations are near major population centers of GCC members, but remote from those of Iran. The Siemens-designed (and Russian development-aided) station at Bushehr cannot withstand a Richter-7 quake, and a quake of that magnitude is quite likely in that region. Earthquake-prone Iran has already had several devastating events in the last two years alone. Nuclear fallout in the Persian Gulf (very shallow: less than 90 meters maximum) would ruin fishing and destroy oil flow - for centuries. If the effects of the Chernobyl disaster are an indicator, the human disaster could be even greater. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #6 the town changed its' name to "Reactor Containment Breach"....it flows better in Farsi |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-05 14:16 |
| #5 As of now the stuff they have been able to produce is a heavy gas and not probably not that high of a threat (because heavy gas that is underground tends to stay there even after a quake). The threat comes when they are further down the bomb making road or if they've stored explosive stuff (especially compressed stuff that is explosive) near radioactive stuff. The threat to the Persian Gulf is highly, highly exaggerated because of the dilution factor. The only fish affected would be the long lived types for which a radioactive intake would be a problem. |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-05-05 13:35 |
| #4 Why, Steve? Think it might go "bam!" in the near future? ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-05 12:29 |
| #3 I'm waiting for them to build a nuke processing plant in Bam. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-05-05 11:39 |
| #2 A major earthquake breach of iranian nuclear plants would have a serious negative impact on our Iraqi allies. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-05 11:17 |
| #1 Get Haliburton to work on this RIGHT AWAY!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2006-05-05 08:56 |